Today Frank Gehry unveiled a few refinements to his controversial design for the Eisenhower Memorial, but it’s unclear whether the changes will be enough to mollify members of the 34th president’s family.

While Gehry left alone the 80-foot-tall metal tapestries, pictured below, that will frame the memorial park along Independence Avenue, he changed the statue of Eisenhower, writes the Post:

The new proposal, detailed at an Eisenhower Memorial Commission meeting, retains the metal tapestries surrounding an urban park framework, but offers changes to the memorial core that the architect hopes give greater prominence to Eisenhower’s stature and accomplishments. Gone are bas relief sculptures in favor of three-dimensional heroic-size statues of Eisenhower as president and general, with space for his accomplishments on the stone blocks and quotations on lintels above them.

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission will have to meet before deciding whether or not to send the plans to the National Capital Planning Commission for approval. But the big unknown is how members of the Eisenhower family, led by granddaughter Susan, will respond. At a congressional hearing in March, she was unsparing in her critiques of the metal tapestries around the memorial.

“The design team at Gehry and Associates and the Eisenhower Memorial Commission has made a habit of referring to the metal curtains as ‘tapestries,’ referencing the tradition to place great people and events on woven material. This may be true of the Middle Ages, but noteworthy modern tapestries are those in the Communist world. Tapestries honoring Marx, Engels and Lenin used to hang in Red Square; Mao Zedong could be found in Tiananmen Square; and Ho Chi Minh’s tapestry hung from public buildings in Hanoi—to name a few,” she wrote in her testimony.

After that hearing, Gehry agreed to make changes to his original design, in which Eisenhower was presented as a young boy from Kansas. The commission has sided with Gehry’s design, but members of Congress have joined the Eisenhowers in expressing concerns.

Photo courtesy the Eisenhower Memorial Commission.